Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980-2020

by Tritia Toyota

At the end of the twentieth century, many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overall lack of human capital. These women, members of the shin Issei community, sought economic opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland. In Intimate Strangers, shin Issei women tell stories of precarity, inequality, and continuing marginality, first in Japan, where they were restricted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439923523
• ISBN13: 9781439923528
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"